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20th Century Fox Putting End Cards On Films Now To Explain True Cost Of Piracy; UPDATE: Idea Was Vice President Biden’s

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 12:40pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Movie Piracy, Twentieth Century Fox

SUNDAY UPDATE: Twentieth Century Fox Film Chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos tells me that the end card anti-piracy project was suggested by the Obama administration. “It was actually an idea of Vice President Biden’s when we visited him during a MPAA Board meeting earlier this year. We thought it was an excellent suggestion and adopted the idea and will continue for all movies going forward.”  So far no other studio has adopted it.

PREVIOUS… SATURDAY: It’s hard for Hollywood to explain to consumers about the losses to the movie industry caused by piracy. Especially when talking heads like studio moguls and government officials try and fail. So kudos to Ted Gagliano, president of 20th Century Fox feature post-production, who began putting end cards on the studio’s movies like this one. It’s on Walden Media/Fox’s Chasing Mavericks now in theaters. It explains the hours and jobs involved in making movies and indicates how they will be lost through piracy. “This is something we instituted starting with Taken 2,” 20th Century Fox distribution boss Chris Aronson tells me. “I think it’s a fantastic initiative and am glad we are doing it. More should.”

Related: MPAA To Candidates: Anti-Piracy Remains A “Critical” Priority

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Movie Pirate Caught Filming At CinemaCon

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 12:30am PDTTags: CinemaCon, Movie Piracy

Interestingly, CinemaCon executives tonight warned the audience that security personnel were using night-vision goggles and other technologies to nab potential movie pirates. It seems to have worked: CinemaCon Managing Director Mitch Nauhauser said one person was caught filming and turned … Read More »

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‘Wolverine’ Pirate To Serve Year In Prison

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 19, 2011 @ 5:22pm PSTTags: Movie Piracy

LOS ANGELES – A New York man who admitted illegally uploading to the Internet a pirated, nearly final “workprint” copy of the movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was sentenced this afternoon to one year in federal prison.

Gilberto Sanchez, 49,

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White House Teams With Media Companies To Warn Against Pirated Merchandise

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 11:54am PSTTags: Barack Obama, Internet Piracy, Justice Department, Movie Piracy

Obama administration officials unveiled today a series of TV, radio, print, and Internet public-service ads that link bogus goods including pirated movies and music with higher crime, lost jobs, and child labor. Intellectual property crimes “are anything but victimless,” Attorney General Eric Holder said, … Read More »

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MPAA: Movie Piracy Downright Un-American

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 8:22am PDTTags: Congress, Michael O'Leary, Movie Piracy, MPAA
Mike Fleming

In a hearing held today by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee on the negative impacts of movie content thieves, MPAA vice president Michael O’Leary made the battle against movie pirates sound downright patriotic. … Read More »

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Bad Day For Los Angeles Movie Pirates

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 2:11pm PSTTags: Movie Piracy, Movies
Mike Fleming

The Los Angeles Anti-Piracy Task Force today announced that it made 10 arrests and seized over $4 million in pirated product. At the same time, the website TorrentFreak claims that the record setting film Avatar was the most illegally downloaded film with over 16 million lifts, while blockbusters like Inception … Read More »

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Convictions Upheld In Showbiz Piracy Case

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday November 26, 2010 @ 9:12am PSTTags: Motion Picture Association, Movie Piracy, Movies

The Motion Picture Association which reps Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, Disney, and Warner Bros in the global marketplace released this notice today:

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — The Court of Appeals in Sweden this afternoon upheld the criminal convictions for copyright infringement against three of the

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U.S. Senate Panel Crack Down On Piracy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 8:10am PSTTags: Bob Pisano MPAA, Digital Theft, Internet Piracy, Movie Piracy, Movies, Piracy, TV
Mike Fleming

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously approved legislation to provide the Justice Department with new tools to crack down on the theft and distribution of illegal digital movies, television shows and other counterfeit material by rogue websites on the Internet. The following is a statement by Bob Pisano, President and Interim CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA):

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MPAA Urges Japan On Pic Pirate Issue

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 21, 2010 @ 8:03am PDTTags: Bob Pisano, Bob Pisano MPAA, Movie Piracy, Movies, MPAA
Mike Fleming

Singapore/Tokyo – In his keynote speech at a forum on measures to tackle online piracy at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 21 October, Bob Pisano, President and Interim CEO, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) called for “forward-thinking” initiatives such as the introduction of a Graduated Response mechanism

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